EP0589823A1 - Safety pipe string elevator - Google Patents

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EP0589823A1
EP0589823A1 EP93630063A EP93630063A EP0589823A1 EP 0589823 A1 EP0589823 A1 EP 0589823A1 EP 93630063 A EP93630063 A EP 93630063A EP 93630063 A EP93630063 A EP 93630063A EP 0589823 A1 EP0589823 A1 EP 0589823A1
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Cornelis Lodewijk Busink
David Brian Mason
Johannes Wilhelmus Van Rijzingen
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B19/00—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables
    • E21B19/02—Rod or cable suspensions
    • E21B19/06—Elevators, i.e. rod- or tube-gripping devices
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B19/00—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables
    • E21B19/02—Rod or cable suspensions
    • E21B19/06—Elevators, i.e. rod- or tube-gripping devices
    • E21B19/07—Slip-type elevators

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  • This invention relates to safety devices for elevators utilized in suspending a string of drill pipe or other well pipe in a well rig.
  • elevators which are actuated remotely between a closed condition for gripping and supporting the well pipe and an open condition in which the elevator can be moved laterally onto and off of the pipe.
  • a known type of power operated elevator is actuated between these conditions by compressed air, which operates two cylinders, with the first cylinder opening and closing two body sections of the elevator, and the second cylinder actuating a latch for holding the body sections in closed condition.
  • the general purpose of the present invention is to provide a safety device for preventing accidental opening of an elevator when a pipe is supported by the elevator.
  • opening of an elevator while it is holding a string of pipe can result in dropping of the entire string into the well, with possible major damage to the string and any equipment carried by or associated with the string, and to the well itself, and with possible injury to personnel and loss of time in fishing for and removing the string from the well and in other operations which may be required as a result of the unwanted opening of the elevator.
  • the safety device for preventing these problems includes a sensing element which responds to the presence of a string of pipe in the elevator at a location to be supported by the elevator, and which automatically prevents opening of the elevator when a pipe is at that location.
  • the sensing element preferably operates a valve which controls the delivery of actuating fluid to the elevator.
  • the sensing element is mounted for engagement with the outer surface of a well pipe located in the elevator, and is movable generally toward and away from the axis of the pipe to sense the diameter of the pipe surface engaged by the element.
  • the sensing element contacts the increased diameter external surface of one of those joint ends and automatically conditions the safety valve or other power controlling unit to prevent powered opening of the elevator.
  • the sensing element engages a smaller diameter portion of the external surface of the pipe, and in that condition permits opening of the elevator.
  • the sensing element may be positioned for upward and downward movement in accordance with upward and downward movement of a number of pipe gripping slip elements contained within the body of the elevator, so that when a pipe is supported in the elevator by the slips the resultant downward movement of the slips will actuate the safety valve or other unit for preventing opening of the elevator body sections.
  • the elevator 10 shown in those figures includes two body sections 11 and 12 interconnected by a hinge 13 for relative swinging movement about a vertical axis 14 relative to one another between the open condition of Fig. 1 and the closed condition of Fig. 2.
  • the elevator acts to support a well pipe 15 (see Fig. 3) having a downwardly tapered eighteen degree external surface 16 on its enlarged joint end 17 engaged by correspondingly downwardly conically tapered complementary eighteen degree support surfaces 18 formed within body sections 11 and 12.
  • pipe 15 has an external cylindrical surface 19 beneath tapered surface 16, and the enlarged joint end 17 has an external surface 20 above tapered surface 16.
  • Body sections 11 and 12 of the elevator have lower reduced diameter cylindrical surfaces 21 which are spaced slightly from surface 19 of the drill pipe in the Fig. 3 position of that pipe, and have larger diameter cylindrically curved surfaces 22 which are spaced slightly from external surface 20 of the joint end.
  • the hinge connection 13 between body sections 11 and 12 of the elevator includes a cylindrical vertically extending hinge pin 23 received within hinge lugs 24 formed on the two body sections to interconnect the sections for opening and closing swinging movement about vertical axis 14.
  • the outer ends 25 and 26 of the two body sections 11 and 12 are spaced apart far enough to allow the elevator to be moved horizontally between a position about the pipe 15 and a position at a side of the pipe offset from the vertical axis 27 of the pipe string.
  • the elevator may be supported in a drilling rig by conventional links 28 suspended at their upper ends from the vertically movable traveling block of the rig.
  • links 28 may be supported from the traveling block indirectly through a top drive unit including a motor which turns pipe 15 and a drill string connected thereto during a drilling operation.
  • Body sections 11 and 12 of elevator 10 are power actuated from their closed condition of Fig. 2 to their open condition of Fig. 1 by a piston and cylinder mechanism 29 including a cylinder 30 connected to section 11 (see Fig. 2) and a piston 31 having a piston rod 32 pivotally connected at 33 to body section 12 of the elevator.
  • Piston 31 is actuable relative to cylinder 30 by pressure fluid, preferably compressed air, delivered to the cylinder through a hose 34.
  • piston and cylinder mechanism 29 acts to pull the left end portions 35 of the body sections 11 and 12 as viewed in Fig. 2 together, thereby opening the right ends of those body sections for movement onto or off of a well pipe.
  • the body sections are yieldingly urged to their closed condition of Fig. 2 by a spring represented as a coil spring 36 urging the left end portions 35 of the body sections as seen in Fig. 2 relatively apart.
  • an overcenter linkage mechanism 37 of known construction including two links 38 and 39 having first ends pivotally connected together at 40, and having second ends connected pivotally to the two body sections 11 and 12 respectively at 41 and 42.
  • an overcenter linkage mechanism 37 including two links 38 and 39 having first ends pivotally connected together at 40, and having second ends connected pivotally to the two body sections 11 and 12 respectively at 41 and 42.
  • the pivotal connection at 40 between links 38 and 39 is spring urged rightwardly by a spring within mechanism 37 to an overcenter position rightwardly beyond the line extending between pivotal axes 41 and 42, to thereby act as an overcenter lock retaining the elevator sections 11 and 12 in open condition.
  • the pipe engages an actuator lug 43 carried by link 39 at the location of the pivotal connection 40 between the two links, to automatically deflect the overcenter mechanism leftwardly in Fig. 2 toward the position represented in that figure and thereby release body sections 11 and 12 for closing movement by spring 36.
  • body sections 11 and 12 are held in closed condition by a latch 44 (see Figs. 8 through 10) which is connected to the outer free end 25 of section 11 by a vertical pin 45 for limited swinging movement relative to body section 11 about a vertical axis 46 parallel to the well axis.
  • body section 12 of the elevator has a latch lug 47 projecting outwardly from its extremity 26 and which is adapted to be received within an opening 48 in latch element 44 to hold the body sections in closed condition.
  • the lug receiving opening 48 in latch 44 is defined by parallel upper and lower portions 49 of latch 44 and a vertically extending portion 50 interconnecting portions 49 and having a latching surface 51 engageable with surface 52 of lug 47 to hold the sections closed.
  • Latch 44 is adapted to be locked in its Fig. 9 position by a hook shaped locking element 53 receivable within a recess 54 formed in lug 47 to interfit in locking relation with a pin 55 carried by the lug within recess 54.
  • Element 53 is connected to latch 44 by a vertical pin 56 for limited relative pivotal movement about a vertical axis 57 between the locking position of Fig. 9 and the released position of Fig. 10, with a spring 58 yieldingly urging locking element 53 pivotally about axis 57 to its Fig. 9 position.
  • the latch 44 and its locking element 53 are power actuated to their open condition of Fig. 10 by a second piston and cylinder mechanism 59 whose cylinder 60 is attached pivotally to body section 11, and whose piston is connected pivotally at 61 to the outer end of locking element 53.
  • the hook shaped extremity of element 53 is received within the recess 62 in portion 50 of the latch, with the movement of element 53 being limited by engagement of that element with a wall 63 of recess 62.
  • element 53 first swings through a limited angle relative to latch 44 to move the hook shaped portion of element 53 away from locking engagement with pin 55, after which subsequent actuation of the piston acts to swing latch 44 from its latching position of Fig. 9 to its open position of Fig. 10, thereby releasing sections 11 and 12 for opening movement.
  • latch 44 is returned to its Fig. 8 position relative to body section 11 by a spring represented at 64, and locking element 53 is returned toward its Fig. 9 position relative to the latch 44 by its spring 58.
  • curved camming surfaces 65 on lug 47 and latch 44 act to deflect the latch outwardly enough to pass the lug into recess 48 in the latch.
  • camming surface 66 on element 53 engages pin 55 in a relation deflecting element 53 to move past the pin and to its Fig. 9 locked position.
  • the elevator structure thus far described is known in the art.
  • the present invention relates particularly to the provision in such an elevator of apparatus for preventing accidental opening of the elevator when a pipe is supported in the elevator.
  • a safety valve 67 which controls the delivery of actuating pressurized air to jaw opening cylinder 29 and to latch releasing cylinder 59, and prevents delivery of such air to those cylinders when a pipe is supported in the elevator.
  • Valve 67 may be connected to the upper surface 68 of body section 11 by a U-shaped bracket 69 appropriately attached to body section 11 and connected to valve 67 by bolts 70. As seen in Fig.
  • valve 67 includes a main body 71 containing a cylindrical bore 72 within which a piston 73 is movable along an axis 74.
  • Spaced O-rings 75 carried by the piston form fluid tight annular seals within the valve body.
  • a cover or end wall 76 is secured to the right end of body 71, as by bolts represented at 77, and is sealed with respect to valve body 71 by a gasket 78 extending about the bore.
  • An air supply hose 79 delivers compressed air to the right end of bore 72, to urge piston 73 and its piston rod 80 leftwardly along axis 74 against the resistance of a coil spring 81 disposed about rod 80.
  • the air pressure supplied to line 79 comes from a source represented diagrammatically at 82 in the schematic diagram of Fig.
  • valve 83 is turned on and off by a manually actuated control valve 83.
  • a quick release valve 84 connected into the line between valve 83 and safety valve 67 is actuated automatically against the tendency of an internal spring 85 to pass air from valve 83 to valve 67 when valve 83 is opened.
  • spring 85 returns valve 84 to the condition illustrated in Fig. 7, in which air from line 79 is bled to atmosphere to release the pressure in that line. This drop in pressure in line 79 enables spring 81 to return piston 73 rightwardly to its Fig. 4 position closing off communication between the right side of piston 73 and line 179 leading to cylinders 29 and 59.
  • piston 73 As piston 73 moves to the right, it permits air from cylinders 29 and 59 and line 179 to flow to the left side of piston 73 and out to atmosphere through an exhaust opening 171 at the left end of bore 72. In the Fig. 6 position of piston 73, such communication between line 179 and opening 171 is closed off by engagement of the left one of the two O-rings 75 with cylindrical bore 72 to the left of the enlarged portion 87 of that bore.
  • This enlarged diameter portion 87 of the chamber in body 71 may be defined by a conically tapering surface 88 centered about axis 74 and extending from the diameter of bore 72 to the diameter of a short cylindrical surface 89 centered about axis 74, and by another conically tapered surface 90 at the opposite side of surface 89.
  • Piston 73 has similarly conically tapering surfaces 91 at its opposite ends centered about axis 74.
  • Valve 67 is positioned on body section 11 with axis 74 of the valve extending radially of the main vertical axis 27 of the elevator and a pipe contained therein.
  • piston 73 and its rod 80 are movable radially toward and away from that axis, and toward and away from the outer surface 20 of a pipe contained within the elevator.
  • piston 73 is almost in engagement with but preferably spaced slightly from end wall 92 of valve body 71, and the right end of the piston is at the location represented in Fig. 6, in which position air can flow past the right end of the piston and into the enlarged portion 87 of the valve body and then to line 179 and cylinders 29 and 59.
  • the air is thus permitted to open the elevator when rod 80 of valve 67 is in engagement with the reduced diameter portion of pipe 15, in which condition the pipe is not supported by the elevator and there is no danger of dropping a supported string into the well.
  • the valve 67 can not, however, permit opening of the elevator when rod 80 is in engagement with the enlarged diameter surface 20 of the upper joint end 17 of the pipe.
  • Fig. 11 illustrates application of the invention to a variational type of elevator 10a which may be considered as identical with that shown in Figs. 1 to 10 except that the elevator of Fig. 11 is adapted for support of a different type of well pipe 15a in lieu of the eighteen degree tapered pipe of Fig. 3.
  • the main body of the pipe 15a has an external cylindrical surface 19a corresponding to surface 19 of the Fig. 3 pipe, but the upper joint end 17a corresponding to the upper end 17 of the Fig. 3 pipe does not have the tapered support surface 16, but rather has a horizontally extending annular downwardly facing shoulder surface 16a engageable with the upper surface 68a of body sections 11a and 12a.
  • valve 11 may be essentially the same as valve 67 of Figs. 4 to 6, but with the rod 80a of valve 67a being typically connected to an arm 93 (see Fig. 12) which is pivoted at 94 to a mounting bracket 95 connected to the body of valve 67a.
  • arm 93 carries a roller 96, which can swing from the retracted position illustrated in full lines in Fig. 12 to either of two extended positions of engagement with the outer surface of the pipe.
  • roller 96 When roller 96 is in engagement with the outer surface 20a of the enlarged portion of pipe 15a (broken line position 96' of Fig. 12 and full line position of Fig. 11), the valve piston within valve 67a is in the position represented in Fig.
  • Fig. 13 is an enlarged vertical section through a variational type of elevator which may be identical to that shown in Figs. 1 through 10 except that the pipe 15b is supported in the elevator by slip elements 97 rather than by the tapered support surfaces 18.
  • the elevator of Fig. 13 includes two body sections corresponding to sections 11 and 12 of Figs. 1 to 10 adapted to be opened and closed and latched by cylinders such as those represented at 29 and 59.
  • One of the two body sections is illustrated at 11b in Fig. 13. That body section has a downwardly tapering inner slip bowl surface 98 engageable with correspondingly downwardly tapered external surfaces 99 on slips 97, to cam the slips inwardly against pipe 15b upon downward movement of the slips.
  • the inner gripping surfaces 100 of the slips act to tightly hold the pipe and support it in the well.
  • Spring 101 resists downward movement of the slips and a ring 102 connected by bolts 103 to the slips 97 within body 11 and to corresponding slips carried by the second of the two relatively openable and closeable body sections.
  • ring 102 moves a radially outwardly projecting arm 105 downwardly to press the vertically extending rod 80b of a safety valve 67b downwardly.
  • Valve 67b may be constructed in the same manner as valve 67 of Fig.
  • valve 67b is in the position of Fig. 5.
  • valve 73 is in the position of Fig. 6, permitting air to flow to the actuating cylinders 29 and 59.
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